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Burnout Revenge commercial song hot damn, the Burnout Revenge commercial is PUNK ROCK! I love it! And I found out the song playing is called "Sink that ship" by the Kaiser Chiefs. If this is a taste of thier next album, it's gon…	1 Last	Rick Stirling Sep 2005
Contests and Prizes... I have been thinking about alternative ways to attract high poly modellers to build assets for my Quake 4 project. I've noticed that contests tend to be pretty popular and thought that I might be ab…	11 Last	oXYnary Sep 2005
WinMX, is it down for good? I couldn't find any proper confirmation that winmx is down for good, only rumours. So if any of you polycounting guys and gals are using it and in addition know for sure if it is down for good, I wou…	14 Last	Seyiji Sep 2005
The Hurricane and you As you may know, central Texas has a hurricane approaching. The server that this board sits in is in Austin, TX. Projections are showing that we probably won't get hit too badly. However, I think yo…	9 Last	Paul Jaquays Sep 2005
The new expressway into the industry It used to be Environment Artist but now I think its Effects Artist! I cant believe how hard it is to find people who are skilled (have experience) or even interested in doing particle effects. T…	70 Last	Kevin Johnstone Sep 2005
question about quake4 Just wondering if anyone knows if quake4 will have a robust single player mode like doom3 did? If you can call their single player robust, but you get the idea. Or will quake4 be strictly fast pace…	4 Last	KDR_11k Sep 2005
gt5 so yes the most beautiful game on the sony hardware is getting a whole new look for ps3 tech and it looks spectacular .. the levels werent as good though , it could be due to the bad cam quality or…	14 Last	KDR_11k Sep 2005
In Stockholm 23/9 - 8/1 ? Probably not that many who will have the chance but if u live here or is just passing by make sure to go to the national museum and catch the exhibition on the dutch golden age [url="http://www.natio…	0 Last	motives Sep 2005
Hurricanes keep landing on towns i used to live in Man seems like god is pissed off at the south with all the hurricanes he is sending, i felt real bad when hurricane katrina hit New Orleans the city i grew up in, and now an even bigger one is headed…	10 Last	gauss Sep 2005
OT: Pandora Internet Radio [url="http://www.pandora.com/"]http://www.pandora.com/[/url] It uses a algorithm to select songs you might like, based on a single song or group you input. Free for 10h after that it's $36 a year. …	17 Last	gauss Sep 2005
Serious Sam 2 demo out yay! [url="http://www.3dgamers.com/games/serioussam2/downloads/"]http://www.3dgamers.com/games/serioussam2/downloads/[/url]	23 Last	BIOS Sep 2005
Age of Empires 3 goes gold!!! September 23, 2005 Prepare for Battle as Age of Empires III Goes Gold Armies of the Third Age Prepare to March on October 18 Ready your troops! Age of Empires III, the stunning real-time strategy …	11 Last	Foehammer Sep 2005
THE winning submission for the WoW movie contest [url="http://www.rufus3.com/return/"][img]http://www.rufus3.com/return/returnmain.jpg[/img][/url] Well I think its the best WoW movie I have seen yet and definitely the front runner to beat out of t…	3 Last	Sett Sep 2005
We Heart Katamari We picked up We Heart Katamari today. We are pleased. We love the new levels and goals. The King was pleased with out Katamari tonight! ROYAL RAINBOW!!!! anyone else pick this up? Same gameplay, new…	3 Last	Steve Schulze Sep 2005
Music and Firebreathing Robots [url="http://robodock.org/home_eng.html"]http://robodock.org/home_eng.html[/url] Found out this is going on this weekend in Amsterdam,its a Rock,art and technology festival, theres gonna be alot of …	10 Last	ewooz Sep 2005
Quick Question... Was watching the Hellboy tutorial and checking out all those nice head SDK's everyone was putting out.. Anyhow, is there a quick way to get into that? It's been so long since I've touched texturing I…	8 Last	Mark Dygert Sep 2005
FF7: Advent Children... damn... wow. I just finished watching it twice. For you FF7 fans, I'm sure you will not be dissapointed. For you general 3d nuts, I'm sure you will not be dissapointed. The rendering in this movie is jus…	46 Last	moose Sep 2005
how to open .pk3 in Gmax 1.2 ??? Anyone ??? Does anyone know how I can load a .Pk3 file into Gmax 1.2 ??? Thanks a million ... FunkyCatSpangky	7 Last	ElysiumGX Sep 2005
Map of known terrrorist locations [url="http://mailinator.com/mailinator/map.html"]http://mailinator.com/mailinator/map.html[/url] Okay, not exactly terrorists but I bet many people would want to see these spots "liberated".	6 Last	Pseudo Sep 2005
London 'counters I'm going to be in London the last week of August. I'd be really keen to hook up and meet some of the local pixel/vertex pushers...	88 Last	Frankie Sep 2005
My Introduction Hi. My name is Muhammad Waqas Khan. I am 15 years Old. I am a 3d character artist. I see some real talents on these forums. Thanks	22 Last	MwK Sep 2005
Body Building and fitness anyone? Hey guys, just cause IT business has a bad name for being lazy in terms of exercise don't mean you can't train right hehe. Anyone you fellas train outside of work n stuff? I'm pretty big into [img]…	20 Last	StrangeFate Sep 2005
Seattle Area CAR STOLEN! If anyone around the seattle area sees a siler/grey 1997 Honda civic with a big dent in the rear driver quarter panel with Indiana plates call me! 425-267-0314 davephipps AT gmail.com	8 Last	Sett Sep 2005
WacomMini? [url="http://www.wacom-europe.com/int/products/penpartner2/index2.asp?lang=en"]http://www.wacom-europe.com/int/products/penpartner2/index2.asp?lang=en[/url] Hrmm...interesting...	5 Last	Rwolf Sep 2005
"Must Have" Console Games? I bought a PS2 recently and God of War has rekindled my interest in console gaming. So, what other games out there would you say are "must haves" for the PS2? Xbox? I don't own a Game Cube (yet) but …	40 Last	jdevin Sep 2005
Attitudes of Gamers Have you guys ever played a game, and just have someone flip out on you? I was just playing CS (I know it's not known for friendly players but still) and this guy go so pissed off at me for.. get thi…	19 Last	KDR_11k Sep 2005
video games live ! [url="http://www.videogameslive.com/index.php?s=home"]http://www.videogameslive.com/index.php?s=home[/url] anyone intersted ? the trailer was interesting go to "what is vgl" section and look at the…	1 Last	ming Sep 2005
Competitive Games? It seems like all the good league/competitive games are dying out. CS 1.6 is practically dead, and not enough people from 1.6 are making the move to source. Quake and it's scene is dying, along with …	11 Last	Ryno Sep 2005
GP2X: No need for PSP homebrew [url="http://gp2x.co.uk/"]http://gp2x.co.uk/[/url] Looking sweet and does everything many geeks use their PSP for (videos, MP3, emulation). Sure, it has no commercial game support lined up right now…	16 Last	JKMakowka Sep 2005
Future Polycounter Just thought I'd take a second to pop in and say that my wife and I had our first child on Friday. We're extremely excited (and a little loopy from lack of sleep), and I know he's going to grow up i…	21 Last	FatAssasin Sep 2005
Fans of Blueman Group? (warning: Sorta adult) [url="http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/cottages/mysterymachine/blue_job.gif"]How about a Blue Job?[/url] My friend shot this here in town today, and we decided to have fun with a little sequence…	3 Last	Weiser_Cain Sep 2005
Life update Hi guys! Sorry it's been such a long time sinse I posted anything, but I've ben busy. As some of you know, the GF came back from Kuwait. We did a relationship upgrade from BF & GF to Husband and…	12 Last	TechSmith Sep 2005
(UK) do you have SKY? as I'm sorta not in the UK, I was wondering if any of you with SKY can do me a favour? I need to check if theres a game on YooPlay or Channel5 called "Five Football". Thanks in advance! (I'm still …	2 Last	hawken Sep 2005
Reading: current Chricton ' s Timeline pretty good. A feast of crows by xmas I hope by george r r martin	53 Last	Justin Meisse Sep 2005
Movies about NYC, shot in NYC I have 2 days till I fly outta here to go on my NYC trip. I have some awesome hotspots I'm gunna hit, but I wanted to get a nice lil reminder from the great number of NYC films out there shot in NYC…	15 Last	gauss Sep 2005
Job interview tomorrow! and my dilemma I'm psyched! Tomorrow I'm meeting up with the folks at Flipside Games (company founded by ex-Blizzard North guys here in the Philippines) for a position as concept artist (lead?) After 1.5 years work…	6 Last	oXYnary Sep 2005
I think I hit Ctrl+S at least 300 times a day. I just don't trust any application anymore. 3DSMax and Photoshop both get Ctrl+S'd every 5-10 minutes. Painted something darker, CTRL+S. Moved 3 verts, CTRL+S. Anyone else ?	26 Last	Frank Sep 2005
Concept Page [url="http://classic-space.com/concept/"]http://classic-space.com/concept/[/url] Whole bunch of concepts which is nice, but it seems they're grabbed from everywhere. gauss's churchill is in there an…	3 Last	gauss Sep 2005
Cant take the cold turky no more Help, the fingers wont stop shaking, the day takes too long to start, the cold sweat every time I watch the telly. What is there to do, there is a gaping hole in my life now star trek is out of it. I…	31 Last	Rhinokey Sep 2005
Argh Me Hearties! Its that time of year again. Sepetmber 19th is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. [url="http://www.talklikeapirate.com/"]http://www.talklikeapirate.com/[/url] Aargh.	8 Last	oXYnary Sep 2005
San Diego rocks. A couple of you may know i flew out to san diego last friday to do some onsite work and meet with some publishers about our game, well everything seems to be going fairly well and it seems like a gre…	10 Last	sledgy Sep 2005
Walken For President? [url="http://www.walken2008.com"]www.walken2008.com[/url] Hell, I'd vote for the man!	20 Last	Irritant Sep 2005
Hey. Hello I haven't really introduced myself at all here yet, so I better, heh. I'm 12 years old, and I live in California. I'm in 8th grade (skipped 3rd grade). I started modelling a couple years ago,…	14 Last	Striff Sep 2005
September desktops? I'm surprised no one made this yet. Here's mine: [url="http://img388.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktop8yx.jpg"][img]http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/7634/desktop8yx.th.jpg[/img][/url] It's based…	21 Last	JonMurphy Sep 2005
Viva la Revo! submit a revolution! my buddy's new site [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] [url="http://www.vivalarevo.com/"]http://www.vivalarevo.com/[/url]	0 Last	flaagan Sep 2005
Crytek 2 tech [url="http://s2.putfile.com/videos/26010463625.avi"]http://s2.putfile.com/videos/26010463625.avi[/url] thoughts ? Personally i wasnt a fan of farcry or their engine, it had great draw distances but …	4 Last	Sean McBride Sep 2005
Polycount, now and then About 3 years ago I stopped posting regularly on Polycount. There were a lot of different reasons none of which were that I stopped liking the boards. Back then there could be 15 or 20 new threads a …	66 Last	arshlevon Sep 2005
starting a games company how much cash do you think you need to start a small games company Would it a be a stupid idea in todays climate? just looking for lots of opinions here.	31 Last	Leech Sep 2005
Classic games of the past Ok as some of you know, I got into games very late. I never had a console till I got a 32x sega console two years after it came out, and I only bought a couple games for it. My first FPS was Tressp…	38 Last	Ninjas Sep 2005
TGS -Soul Calibur 3 [url="http://ps2.ign.com/articles/651/651547p1.html"]http://ps2.ign.com/articles/651/651547p1.html[/url] Vids here: [url="http://media.ps2.ign.com/media/736/736896/vids_1.html"]http://media.ps2.ign…	12 Last	KDR_11k Sep 2005